Tim Sherwood insists he would have snubbed Daniel Levy signings

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Tim Sherwood made it clear yesterday that he would not have selected any of the players targeted by Tottenham Hotspur during the transfer window.

The North London club attempted to bring in another striker — including Dimitar Berbatov, of Fulham, and Mirko Vucinic, of Juventus — but Sherwood, the head coach, has preferred to blood players from the academy and believes that his first-team squad isalready too large.

Nabil Bentaleb, a young midfield player, has stepped up from the academy and Sherwood has said that another, Harry Kane, will be able to fill the gap left by the departure of JermainDefoe, the